Using Mint cinnamon

I can launch the game easily enough. When I start playing in a match everything works fine initially. Anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes into a match my fans will ramp up to full before my PC hangs and turns itself off.

Launching from steam with “-windowed -noborders” in the launch options, without this the game refuses to launch at all. Adding “-vulcan” to this causes no change to the above situation. I’ve tried running with a steam compatibility tool but it also refuses to launch. Happens when launching with the legacy opengl option too.

Don’t know what to do from here, haven’t seen anything similar looking online

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        If it’s a time-based issue, it’s heat or memory.

        If you can boot back to Windows and have no problems at all, that would be interesting.

          • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spaceEnglish
            1·
            17 hours ago

            Just anecdotally speaking (last time I used mint was many years ago), I used to have problems on there from outdated (GPU) drivers and/or an outdated kernel often when playing games back then, but I don’t know what developments happened since then. Back then, problems vanished for me when I changed to Manjaro.

            If this persists and no obvious issue can be found, looking into how to upgrade your AMD/NVIDIA drivers or overall kernel beyond the standard ones shipping with stable mint may help in the end (maybe there’s a memory leak somewhere in an interaction with an older version?) - or switching to a different Distro, as frustrating as this may end up being. (If gaming is a major activity you plan on, Garuda or Bazzite are the current recommendations)

            But treat this one as it is: basically a blind guess based on anecdotes from many years ago. Fingers crossed you’ll have it sorted out.